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Engineer Politicians in Georgia

Stephen Heard (1741-1815) — of Elbert County, Ga. Born in Hanover County, Va., November 13, 1741. Engineer; planter; served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Governor of Georgia, 1780-81; member of Georgia state house of representatives, 1794-95. Died in Elbert County, Ga., November 15, 1815 (age 74 years, 2 days). Interment at Heard Cemetery, Elberton, Ga.   Relatives: Married 1760 to Jane Germany; married, August 25, 1785, to Elizabeth Darden; father of Jane Lanier Heard (who married Singleton Walthall Allen), George Washington Heard, Barnard Carroll Heard and Thomas Jefferson Heard; grandfather of Sarah Heard (who married Luther H. O. Martin Sr.), Rebecca Allen (who married William H. Mattox), James Lawrence Heard, Robert Middleton Heard and William Henry Heard; great-grandfather of Anna Cassandra McIntosh (who married Budd Clay Wall), Nancy Middleton Heard (who married Phillip Watkins Davis), William Henry Harrison Heard and Luther H. O. Martin Jr..   Political family: Heard family of Elberton, Georgia.   Heard County, Ga. is named for him.   See also National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   Joseph Eggleston Johnston (1807-1891) — also known as Joseph E. Johnston — of Savannah, Chatham County, Ga.; Richmond, Va. Born in Longwood, Prince Edward County, Va., February 3, 1807. Democrat. Civil engineer; served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; U.S. Representative from Virginia 3rd District, 1879-81. Died March 21, 1891 (age 84 years, 46 days). Interment at Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.   Relatives: Brother of Charles Clement Johnston; married to Lydia McLane (daughter of Louis McLane); uncle of John Warfield Johnston and Eliza M. Johnston (who married Robert William Hughes); granduncle of Robert Morton Hughes.   Political families: Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family of Virginia; Johnston-Floyd family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier   Frank Park (1864-1925) — of Sylvester, Worth County, Ga.; Hollywood, Broward County, Fla. Born in Tuskegee, Macon County, Ala., March 3, 1864. Democrat. School teacher; civil engineer; lawyer; circuit judge in Georgia, 1909-13; U.S. Representative from Georgia 2nd District, 1913-25. Methodist. Member, Freemasons; Woodmen. Died in Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Fla., November 20, 1925 (age 61 years, 262 days). Interment at White Springs Cemetery, White Springs, Fla.   Relatives: Son of James F. Park and Emma A. (Bailey) Park; married 1893 to Emma A. Bridges.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page   Julian Larcombe Schley (1880-1965) — of Balboa Heights, Canal Zone (now Panama). Born in Savannah, Chatham County, Ga., February 23, 1880. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Lieutenant colonel, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Governor of Panama Canal Zone, 1932-36. Episcopalian. Member, American Society of Civil Engineers. Died March 29, 1965 (age 85 years, 34 days). Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Jordan Schley and Eliza Ann (Larcombe) Schley; married, October 31, 1931, to Denise Vary.

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